http://kurtandersen.com/blogwp/2007/02/22/8/ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:52:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://kurtandersen.com/blogwp/2007/02/22/8/comment-page-1/#comment-179 Kurt Andersen ~ blog Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:00:09 +0000 http://kurtandersen.com/blogwp/?p=8#comment-179 [...] The conventional wisdom among U.S. military and intelligence experts, as it’s been reported since the beginning of the Iraq war, is that torture is ineffective – that seriously hurting and terrifying people doesn’t make them give up useful secrets, the M.O. of Jack Bauer and his colleagues on 24 notwithstanding. That was the gist of Jane Mayer’s piece about 24 in The New Yorker two months ago, which I wrote about here. [...]

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